Our Past Events
CCCW Day Lecture: What does World Christianity mean for Mission Studies? Explorations in Christianity Worldwide by Professor Kirsteen Kim, Wednesday 22 January 2025
Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP & Online. The speaker will join in person.
Date: Wednesday 22 January 2025, 1600-1730 GMT
Professor Kirsteen Kim, Paul E. Pierson Chair in World Christianity and Associate Dean for the Center for Missiological Research at the Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California
More information here.
Henry Martyn Day Lecture: Wednesday 6 November 2024
Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP & Online. The speaker will join in person.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MISSIONARY ENTHUSIAMS? THE TRANSFORMATION OF PROTESTANT GLOBALISM FROM BISHOP SELWYN’S CAMBRIDGE SERMONS IN 1854 TO TODAY
Prof Brian Stanley, Professor Emeritus of World in Christianity, University of Edinburgh
More information here.
CCCW Day Lecture: Tuesday 25 January 2024
Thursday 25th January 2024, 4.00-5:30pm GMT
Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP & Online. The speaker will join in-person.
HEALTH IN WORLD CHRISTIANITY: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF HEALING IN AFRICAN CHRISTIANITY IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Professor Emma Wild-Wood, Professor of African Religions and World Christianity, University of Edinburgh
More information here.
A Panel Discussion on Religion and Commonwealth Values: Friday 12 January 2024, 1400 GMT
A launch of the recent special issue of the journal The Round Table on Religion and Commonwealth Values accompanied by a panel discussion.
Date: Friday 12 January 2024, 1400-1500 GMT
Venue: Westminster College
Speakers:
Dr Graham Kings, Senior Research Associate, CCCW
Dr Jonathan Chaplin, Honorary Fellow at Wesley House, Cambridge
Prof James Mayall, Emeritus Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge
Ms Terry Barringer, Senior Research Associate, CCCW
More information to follow.
Henry Martyn Day Lecture: Monday 16 October 2023
Monday 16th October, 4.00-5:30pm BST
Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP & Online. The speaker will join in-person.
EVANGELICAL THEOLOGY IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Prof David Bebbington, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Stirling
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Book Launch: Georgina Gollock by Dr Ian Randall Monday 3 July 2023
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World Christianity Summer Institute 2023: ‘The Bible: Everywhere in Everyday Life.’ Public Lecture by Professor John Barton FBA, Wednesday 5 July 2023
A Public Lecture on ‘The Unchanging Bible for an Ever-Changing Readership: Biblical Translation in Global Culture’ by Prof John Barton FBA, University of Oxford, Wednesday 5 July 2023, 5.00pm, Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge, CB3 9DP, and online.
World Christianity Summer Institute 2023: ‘The Bible: Everywhere in Everyday Life,’ 2 to 7 July 2023
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Inaugural CCCW Day Lecture: Tuesday 24 January 2023
In our CCCW Day seminar, Dr Thomas John Hastings, Director, Overseas Minsitries Studies Centre, Princeton Theological Seminary will speak on ‘KAGAWA TOYOHIKO (1888-1960), A ‘REVERSE MISSIONARY.”‘ Tuesday 24 January 2023, 4-5.30 pm GMT, Healey Room, Westminster College, Madingley Road, CB3 0AA, and online.
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The Henry Martyn Centre, renamed CCCW in 2014, was founded by Graham Kings, On 22 January 1996 the move from the Henry Martyn Hall to Westminster College was celebrated with an inaugural lecture. Friends of CCCW from all over the world gather together in person and online on this day.
INAUGURAL HENRY MARTYN DAY LECTURE by Prof Paul Williams, Chief Executive of Bible Society, Thursday 06th October 2022, 4-5.30pm
Healey Room, Westminster College, Madingley Road, CB3 0AA, and online.
For more information, please see here.
A video of the seminar is available to watch on the CCCW Youtube Channel.
Henry Martyn (18 Feb 1781 – 16 Oct 1812) forsook an academic career and became a missionary in India. He translated the New Testament into Hindustani and Persian. His commitment to world mission inspired many. On his first birth centenary in 1881 the Henry Martyn Trust, which runs CCCW, was established.
World Christianity Summer Institute 2022 Public Lecture, 20 July 2022
A Public Lecture on ‘Grief, Resilience and Hope amid the Pandemic’ by Prof Charlotte Summers, University of Cambridge, Wednesday 20 July 2022, 5.30pm, Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge, CB3 9DP
Book Launch: From Henry Martyn to World Christianity: Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide by Ian Randall, Muthuraj Swamy, Graham Kings. 25th May 2022
Woolf Institute, Wednesday 25 May 2022, 4.00-5.30 pm (BST)
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Theological Education Webinar, 10th February, 2022
A webinar ‘South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Theological Education’ brought by Theological Education in the Anglican Communion (TEAC).
Speakers: Revd Prof Israel David, United Theological College, Bangalore, India; Miss Lubna Younas Dewan, Principal, St Thomas’ Theological College, Karachi, Pakistan; Revd R T B Abeysinghe, Lecturer, Theological College of Lanka, Pilimatalawa, Sri Lanka.Book Launch: Cambridge Students and Christianity Worldwide: Insights from the 1960s by Ian M. Randall. 14th May 2019
14 May 2019, 17:30 – 14 May 2019, 18:30
Healey Room, Westminster College, Madingley Rd, Cambridge
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Director’s book launch, 11th February 2019. Reconciliation: Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book.
A book launch was held for Reconciliation: The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2019, by our director, Muthuraj Swamy.
Swamy reminds us constantly that true reconciliation is a journey into otherness.
— Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury